Be part 3
We're human BEINGS not human doings. What we do flows from who we be. That's why it's so important to know (and believe) who we are. And who we are, in a Word, is Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God poured His Spirit out on all flesh on the cross. He drew us all into Himself when He was lifted up from the earth. We're in Him and He's in us. But in order to EXPERIENCE this truth, we have to BE in Him. Look at 2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Did you catch the key there? If you BE in Christ you're a new creature. You already ARE in Christ, but until you know that and believe that you can't BE that. Old things passed away, but sometimes we hold onto them. Sometimes we don't LET them go. And watch this: All things ARE BECOME new. "Are become" is a phrase that means, "to become (come into being)." All things ARE new, but with our awareness of this newness all things BECOME new. Let me say it this way, "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:4). We died when He died, because He had drawn us into Himself. So when He rose back to life (His very own abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life) we rose back to that very same life! He didn't just give His life FOR us, He gave His life TO us! And now we also SHOULD walk in newness of life. It's available to us. We CAN walk in newness of life. We ARE in Christ so we can now BE in Christ. Just as He is in us! We can partake of the Divine Nature. We can live His life by presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice and letting Him live His life in, and through, and as us. We can stop trying to do and we can simply be. We can stop trying to finish the work--it is finished--and we can rest. We can BE still and know that HE is God. We can stop trying to live FOR God--as if He's our boss and we better do what He says or else--and we can start living BY Him. Noah was perfect in God's sight because he found grace in God's eyes and he walked WITH God. He didn't try to perform for God. He simply knew who he was and lived his life accordingly. That's the biggest difference between Adam (God's son) and Jesus (God's BELOVED Son). God loved them both, but Jesus knew it. He believed it. He let God love Him instead of trying to earn something that is freely given. That's the difference between the old and the new. Works and rest. Natural and Spiritual. Doing... and being... We don't do in order to be. We do BECAUSE we be. We don't try to be a New Creature in order to be in Christ. We ARE a New Creature because we ARE in Christ. So stop trying to be someone you're not and just be who you are!